Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
#1Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 3:05pm
There have been so many stage shows (plays or musicals) adapted from literary works (novels, short stories, even poems.) This seems to be particularly true lately, but probably dates back a long, long way.
So what do you think are the most successful of these?
Page to Stage: Jonathan Franzen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rona Jaffe
Updated On: 10/26/12 at 03:05 PM
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 3:43pm
This seems to be particularly true lately, but probably dates back a long, long way.
EL OH EL
#3Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 3:46pmI find Lerner & Loewe's "Everybody Poops" adaptation to be one of the finest of the 20th century.
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#4Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 4:16pmFiddler on the Roof, South Pacific, and Guys and Dolls
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#6Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 5:56pmWell, if we're talking about most financially successful, we all know the answer to that question...
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#8Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 6:35pmFrank Wildhorn's Whatever's in the Public Domain.
#9Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 6:43pmStephen Sondheim's "Strangers With Candy"
#10Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 6:49pmRodgers and Hammerstein's perennial Daddy's Roommate
jagfkb
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/29/07
#11Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 7:05pmAnd who could forget Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sing about Love... And not much else"
aaronb
Broadway Star Joined: 6/3/12
#12Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 7:06pmChristopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
#13Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 7:49pm"Jason Robert Brown's The Gas We Pass" is brilliant!
#15Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 8:23pm
Was that written by Edna Fartber?
#16Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 8:28pmI apologize for that last joke. It was gastley.
#17Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 9:18pm
Some of these SHOULD be shows.
Too late for Rodgers and Hammerstein to do Daddy's Roommate, but how about Benj Pasek and Justin Paul?
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#19Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 10:40pmThe strip club down the street that is doing "The Book of More Men"
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#20Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 11:34pmThe Heiress, The Member of the Wedding
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#21Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/21/12 at 11:54pm
Too bad this thread went to sh*t.
I'm an enormous fan of the film version of THE HOURS. I am also a fan of the source material, but I feel that this film is the perfect meeting of actor/ material in every role. It simply elevates the material to another (IMHO-- unbelievable) level.
SondheimFan5
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/10
#22Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/22/12 at 12:04amMy Fair Lady, because it is practically Shaw word-for-word. (And brilliant).
#23Best Literary Adaptation Ever?
Posted: 10/22/12 at 1:55am
Stephen Sondheim's "Strangers With Candy"
Brilliant, how amazing would that be.?
dexter3
Featured Actor Joined: 9/13/08
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